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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Peter Weaver Creek |
rises in S Jackson County and flows SE then NE into Morgan Mill Creek. |
| Peters Creek |
rises in NE Bladen County, flows NE across SE tip of Cumberland County, then flows back into Bladen County, where it enters South River. |
| Peters Creek Township |
N central Stokes County. |
| Peters Ferry |
See Grifton. |
| Peters Point |
point of land 1 mi. NW of Fort Fisher in S New Hanover County extending into the Cape Fear River near its mouth. See also Point Peter. |
| Petersburg |
community in S Madison County on Bull Creek. Alt. 1,972. |
| Petersburg Crossing |
a crossroads community in E Duplin County. |
| Peterson |
community in W Mitchell County on Nolichucky River. Also known as Warrick. |
| Peterson Branch |
rises in N Yancey County and flows S into Jacks Creek. |
| Peterson Gap |
N Mitchell County on Fork Mountain. |
